Tecticornia pruinosa
(Paulsen) K.A.Sheph. & Paul G.WilsonSpreading shrub to c. 50 cm high. Articles of ultimate branches obovoid, 3–8 mm long, dull, grey-green; lobes obtuse or rounded, margins entire or minutely dentate. Spikes terminal (rarely vegetative growth continuing beyond fertile part), to 3 cm long (in Victoria); opposite bracts united, margins entire; flowers free; perianth dorsiventrally flattened at apex. Fruiting spike often long persistent; fruiting perianth thinly spongy, pericarp thinly crustaceous in upper part, membranous or absent near base; seed obliquely ovoid, flattened, 1–1.5 mm long, usually falling enclosed in perianth, testa thin, pale brown, faintly granular dorsally and near apex. Flowers mainly during winter.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, MSB, RobP. Also WA, NT, SA, NSW. Occasional near margins of salt lakes in the north-west (Mildura, Raak Plain, Pink Lakes, Lake Tyrrell), usually in or near the outermost zones (i.e. furthest from the lake margin).
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Chenopodiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 129–199. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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